LET US GO AFIELD 



times prints news taken from its own files of a date 

 forty years earlier. The date in question puts us 

 back in the time of 1873. There are three curiosi- 

 ties in this bit of reprint. One is the following ad- 

 vertisement : 



"Gentlemen's heavy shawls, worth $5; now 

 $3-50." 



Gentlemen wear overcoats today and not shawls. 

 If you can remember the days when men wore 

 shawls you can remember the buffalo. Two other 

 items read as below: 



"One of the Kansas City party of mighty hunt- 

 ers who went out into the Dodge City region after 

 buffaloes a few weeks ago writes to the Times as 

 follows: 'We have been out only thirteen days, 

 traveling about twenty miles a day, and we have 

 killed thirty-one buffaloes, seven antelopes, one 

 deer, one badger, two gray wolves and one coyote, 

 all of which, except the buffaloes and antelopes, we 

 skinned and brought in.' ' 



"Prairie chickens have gone up to two dollars 

 and quails to seventy-five cents a dozen; but you 

 can get plenty of buffalo meat at three to five cents, 

 antelope at six to seven cents, and venison at six 



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